Hope you didn't tip Ha

I'm still wondering why yall paid to put out and pick up decoys

My buddy and I's coastal adventure.

5:00 am arrive at hunting spot

5:10 am 10 year old kids of the other hunters start hitting each other.

5:12 am dad of 10 year asks what they are doing, kids say boxing but it was ok because "we are hitting below the shoulders only" dad says ok just don't hit in the face.

5:30 am arrive at the field we are hunting. Guides have approximately 20% of the decoys set up.

5:35 am my buddy and I along with other clients are told to start putting up decoys.

5:45 am female who has never hunted before (who didn't have a gun and was only with husband) told to not put decoys out in such a straight line.

6:00 am still putting out decoys.

6:25 am buddy and I push guides four wheeler and trailer while he drives because it is stuck.

6:45 am finally get to sit down to prepare to "hunt"

7:00 am 10 year old points shotgun at me.

7:02 am 10 year old points shotgun at me for the second time.

7:05 am 10 year olds dad points shotgun at me.

7:25 am first big group of geese begin working, 10 year old fidgeting around. Birds flare and fly away.

7:30 am 10 year old points gun at my buddy and I again.

7:40-8:00 am several more groups fly around but flare.

8:05 am first goose killed by group of 8 hunters

8:10 am more bird flare.

8:20 am 10 year old points gun at back of his dads head with finger on the trigger.

8:30 am 10 year old points gun at my buddy and I......again.

8:35 am one more goose down.

9:00 am group of approx 1,000 geese flying around.... All flare, so pass shots at 60 yards are taken.

9:15 am another large group working 10 year old attempts to mouth call geese but sounds like a cat being waterboarded. All flare. More long pass shots taken

9:25 am one more bird down. Only bird to light all day.

9:30 am 10 year old begins barking at geese.

9:45 am geese working so 10 year old begins yelling "here goosey goosey!" And continues barking at said geese(because it worked so well the first time).

10:00 am fourth bird down for group of 8.

10:15 am 10 year old sees sandhill cranes and says he wants to shoot them. Guide says cranes can't be shot now, 10 year says "I don't care, ill shoot it anyway!" Dad laughs.

10:20 am 10 year old shoots(3 shots) at unknown song bird, missed.. Dad laughs

10:30 am final bird down for group.

11:00 am 10 year old wants to start shooting black birds or anything else flying.

11:15 am 10 year old extra fidgety an points gun at almost everyone. Dad says to take the shell out of the chamber. 10 year old takes shell out of the chamber and continues lasering everyone. Dad says nothing else since gun is "unloaded"

11:30 am group told to start picking up decoys.

11:45 am female client corrected on how to pick up decoys, while guides sit/stand by 4 wheeler.

12:00 pm 10 year old takes shotgun out of dads case and points at everyone. Guide yells "what are you doing!" Dad slowly reacts and says "put that away"

12:15 pm guide gets 4 wheeler stuck....again.

12:30 pm finish long walk back to the car.

12:45 pm the day is mercifully over begin long drive back home.


This was one for the ages. Total of 8 clients killed a total of 5 birds. 1 bird of out the approximately 10,000 seen landed. I realize birds don't always cooperate but with all the fidgeting and weird noises made I don't blame the geese for not coming in. We stopped keeping track of how many times we were lasered. I've never seen such unsafe gun handling. My buddy and I hunt public several times a week and thought it would nice to make the long drive south for a guided goose hunt. I wish we would have just gone to the X probably would have killed more birds. Definitely wouldn't have had a gun pointed at me and wouldn't have had to take so many pass shots. I have no problem with kids hunting, heck I encourage it, but it's bs if your kids are ruining a hunt people are paying for. The kid was making all sorts of noises and talking loudly the entire time and was never once told to be quiet. I thank all that is holy I am able to write this and am not dead.

On a positive note the guides dog was pretty awesome.

I was expecting a "7:20 am sucker punched the 10 year old for aiming at me"

I just ejected Christmas ale through my nose! LOL

Sorry you guys had a bad experience. I too just returned from a guided goose hunt where I had to put out and pick up decoys and hunted with a large group (16+4 guides). First time for everything, I suppose, but next time I'll be asking some more questions beforehand for sure. Theres no excuse for a parent to be allowing that kind of behavior go on.

Wow.....

Were y'all offered another hunt at a discount or anything?

Honestly, that sounds about right for a coastal guided hunt these days. Guides that think they know it all, who call average at best shoots "great", and specialize in calling group volleys into a mass of birds out of range hoping birds fall out. "At least the clients got some shooting in". It still amazes me that people will pay the prices they do to go shoot 2 specks and maybe a few snows early in the season. I would be pissed that I just wasted my money, but I constantly see guides acting like the goose hunting has really turned on since the specks are decoying like it's a great accomplishment. I guess if they can make money doing that and some people are happy with it, so be it.